Things I did in the past: writing a PhD thesis about the reconfigurations of authors and readers in digital literature, teaching literature at the Universities of Trier, Bayreuth and Sivas, and Trinity College Dublin, studying a teachers' course of Physics and English, working with mentally disabled people, writing in a creative writing group in Leeds/UK, working with exchange students, playing volleyball, coding and working as a swapper in the C64 demo scene, selling my first computer game to a publishing house when I was sixteen, living in a lovely flat with a tiled stove for seven years, starring in a GCSE listening comprehension test... (to be continued)

You can contact me via email. If you are a student of mine, rather come to my office hours. Sometimes I offer sweets and cookies.

For my students at PH Ludwigsburg, the Universities of Trier, Bayreuth and Trinity College Dublin, I have collected some materials here.

Scholarly

"Fry Me Home! The Semiotics of Food in Representations of Cross-Cultural Negotiations of Identity and Community in Contemporary Media Texts." [In preparation].

"Cr3473! The Benefits of Using Electronic Creative Writing in the Teaching of Literature." [In preparation].

Edited Special (Forsterian) Issue (with Anna Kwiatkowska) of Polish Journal of English Studies 3.2 (2017--published 2018). Journal of the Polish Association for the Study of English (PASE), ISSN 2543-5981.

"Prompter, Inspirer or Prophet? E. M. Forster and the World Wide Web" (Talk). The World of E. M. Forster— E. M. Forster and the World, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, University of Warsaw, University of Trier, International E. M. Forster Society. Olsztyn, 29 – 30 Sep. 2016.

"From eLit to pLit: Benefits and Limitations of a Model for the Visualization and Analysis of Collaborative Writing in Electronic and Printed Literature" (Talk). ELO 2016: New Horizons, University of Victoria, BC, Canada, 10 – 12 June 2016 [Prezi].

WS 2014/2015 / University of Trier:301 The English Novel from the 17th to the 19th Century: From Aphra Behn to George Eliot(recommended editions (at Amazon.de): Behn, Richardson, Brown, Eliot, Swift, Braddon, Austen)

WS 2013/2014 / University of Trier:301 Constructions of Gender in Contemporary British Media Texts

WS 2013/2014 / Trinity College Dublin: Lecture Forms of Digital Literature: From Combinatoric/Kinetic Poetry to Blog Fiction (guest lecture in the core module "Theory and Practice of Digital Humanities" of the MPhil in Digital Humanities and Culture)

WS 2013/2014 / Trinity College Dublin: Lecture Reconfigurations of Author and Readership in Digital Literature (guest lecture in the core module "Theory and Practice of Digital Humanities" of the MPhil in Digital Humanities and Culture)

WS 2013/2014 / Trinity College Dublin:Barthes' Death of the Author and Foucault's Author Function: Theory and Aesthetic Implications (four-hour workshop at the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute)

WS 2013/2014 / Trinity College Dublin:Collaborative Digital Writing: A Million Penguins and the War of the Collaborators - A Reconstruction and Discussion of Focal, Para and Social Texts (four-hour workshop at the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute)

SS 2013

SS 2013 / University of Trier: Lecture 402 Approaches to Contemporary British Literature and Media

3.) Presentation: Kerim and Ugur will introduce the key concepts of New Criticism to us.

Fourth Newsletter (10th December 2007)

1.) Preparation for next seminar: As written in email to all participants.

Third Newsletter (8th November 2007)

1.) Preparation for next seminar: Please prepare A. J. Minnis "The Significance of the Medieval Theory of Authorship," which you can find in Seán Burke's reader.

2.) Presentation: Nataliya and Malte will tell us what Percy Bysshe Shelley has to say about authorship.

Second Newsletter (24th October 2007)

1.) Preparation for next seminar: Please prepare Seán Burke's introduction to "our" reader plus Jorge Luis Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote". You will find everything in the Semesterapparat.

First Newsletter (17th October 2007)

1.) Literature: There is a Semesterapparat at the humanities library. It has the number 202. There, you can find a mastercopy of Borges' texts given in the schedule. Seán Burke's book has just been put into the Semesterapparat. You can find the current status of shelf 202 here.

2.) Preparation for next seminar: Please read the texts given in the seminar schedule.

Mondays 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (c.t.), room S94 (GW1)

In this seminar, we will discuss several theoretical texts dealing with authorship. Most of these texts can be found in Seán Burke's Authorship: From Plato to the Postmodern, so, please, obtain his reader. More recent texts on the authorship of digital literature will either be available in a seminar reader or can be found on-line.

Books to purchase:

Seán Burke, Authorship: From Plato to the Postmodern. This book is in the Semesterapparat. You can also buy it new or used e.g. at Amazon (new for 26.90 EUR, used from about 16 EUR. I ordered it there (new) and had to wait eleven days), at AbeBooks or at ChooseBooks.

Further texts will be available online or in a course reader.

Supervised Bachelor Theses (Selection):

2013/2014

"The Representation of Female Characters in Japanese and American Video Games"

"Digital Versus Traditional Literature: The End of Books?"

2012/2013

“Dementia in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot”

“Dystopia and Reality: Nineteen Eighty-Four and Orwellian Elements in US Politics and Society”

2011/2012

“Victorian Dualisms: The Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”

“Strategies of Repression in the Dystopian Novels Brave New World and The Handmaid’s Tale”

2010/11

“Representations of the Fourth Dimension in Victorian Literature”

2008/2009

“Harry Potter – A Children’s Classic? Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone compared to Five Children and It”

Unfortunately, I cannot supervise any further BA/BEd theses in the academic year 2017/2018.